Li Yinhang's notebook has a simple timeline, followed by simple text annotations.
"It's a movie." Li Yinhang said at the outset, "All the horrors we've encountered so far are plots in movies."
Speaking of which, the reason why Li Yinhang thinks of the movie is entirely because of what happened to the thin monkey yesterday.
She had seen an old Hong Kong movie on the movie channel when she was a child.
She had long forgotten what she said in detail, but there was a scene in which young Li Yinhang was so afraid of getting into his mother's bed—
A man stood in front of the TV, fascinated by the red lips that kept opening and closing.
The red lips opened, swallowing the man whole into the TV, and finally stuck out his tongue and licked his lips with satisfaction.
As a result, for a long time, Li Yinhang did not dare to stay in front of electronic screens such as TVs for too long.
Unexpectedly, the encounter of the thin monkey has a subtle correspondence with her childhood shadow.
She only had a little bit of a basis for getting to the bottom of it.
"However, based on this memory fragment from my childhood, I dare not draw a conclusion."
Li Yinhang said with a bitter face: "...So I watched all the horror movies on the computer."
She opened the notebook and spread it out in front of Nan Zhou.
"Humanoid", a warm horror film, the storyline is probably that there is a child who always feels that the house is haunted, and no one will believe it when he tells others. In fact, his dead father has returned.
He would stand at the head of the bed watching his sleeping son, accompany him to and from school, and play basketball with him, until he watched his son run to the temple to pray and hope that he would perish.
"Bathroom", a Korean film, when the heroine was washing her hair at a little over 29 minutes, Yu Guang glanced behind her with a pair of feet.
"Night Howl", an American film, the werewolf secretly hides under the child's bed. When the child is playing, the remote control car slips under the bed. He reaches for it and is pulled under the bed by the werewolf.
This scene is at the beginning of the movie, about 3 minutes and 25 seconds.
The old Hong Kong film "Ghost Invasion" mentioned by Li Yinhang was also listed.
Li Yinhang explained: "The situation that lawyer Yu encountered today is also on the computer. It is called "Choir", a Canadian film. A demon leads faceless children to sing in a church, seduces devout believers, and captures them and eats their souls. ."
Nan Zhou was stunned.
That way, everything makes sense.
Why do ghosts appear irregularly
Why is the random appearance, and the attacked object more random
Why are ghosts both invisible, tangible, and even dewclaws
Facial recognition triggered, feet in bathroom, cannibal red lips on computer screen, seduction in dreams…
Horror plots that have appeared in movies, houses that are constantly compressed and distorted, doors that disappear...
A timeline that is almost completely synchronized with the time of the murder, but neither the murderer nor the bloody corpse is visible...
All kinds of clues, gathered together, point to a possibility that is somewhat bizarre, but can only be explained by this.
Li Yinhang said: "This is the movie world."
Jiang Fang said, "This is Xiao Ming's world."
Li Yinhang: "..."
Li Yinhang: "… ah???"
She spent more than half a day reviewing more than 20 horror movies at 2x speed, and tried to avoid people's eyes and eyes, so that other groups would not find out what she was doing.
What she eventually came to was that it was a world of multiple cinematic hybrids.
In the end, after listening to her analysis, Jiang Fang gave a completely different answer in 20 seconds.
... She had a feeling of grief and indignation that she was full of confidence after the exam and told the master about the answer, only to be told by the master that she still had a side that she didn't write.
She paused for a few seconds before she could think about what Jiang Fang had just said.
… What is "Xiao Ming's world"
Nan Zhou sat cross-legged on the ground with the handicrafts he made for Xiao Ming in front of him.
That is what Nan Zhou completed within today.
He felt that if the flow of time speeds up again tomorrow and the day after, the manual work may not be able to be done at all.
So he planned to set it up in advance, and by tomorrow, as long as a few additions were made, the task would be completed.
Now, Xiao Ming's dream family has taken shape.
Three little matchstick figures of different heights stood in front of the house holding hands.
The light makes the matchstick emit a faint wooden glaze. If you don't look closely, it looks like a few miniature ivory carvings, delicate and warm.
Nan Zhou picked up the hair-thin toothpick with tweezers the thickness of a toothpick and placed it on the empty side of one of the little people.
… This is Matchstick Xiaoming's arm.
His hands are very steady, and he can even separate his mind, answering Li Yinhang's questions softly: "'Xiao Ming's world' means that we are now in Xiao Ming's mind."
When Li Yinhang was at a loss, Jiang Fang took the call: "Yinhang, do you remember that call? It was when we went to ask about the water bill."
"The operator told us that today is July 3."
"In June, the water consumption of this family was the normal 12 tons for a family of three. But after only three days in July, the water consumption increased sharply to 11 tons."
Li Yinhang tried to keep up with the rhythm: "So, the dismemberment happened either on the 1st or on the 2nd?"
Because the oil in the pressure cooker is fresh and still shiny.
Jiang Fang said: "The exact time cannot be tested. However, it is very likely that he just sent off his daughter on the night we arrived."
Nan Zhou adjusted Match Xiaoming's square head.
He was wondering how long it would take a man in his prime with a handsaw, a bathtub and a spacious bathroom to break down a human body to the point where it could be shipped and thrown away after realizing his mistake.
How long does it take to cut the bones that are not easy to hide in sections, put them in a pot and boil them in batches, then pretend to be broken ribs and throw them into the kitchen waste downstairs.
The answer is that four or five hours is enough.
Thinking like this, he said, "Maybe, Xiao Ming's father really came to Xiao Ming's bedside on the night he finished killing people. He stood beside the bed and stared at Xiao Ming."
After saying something that made Li Yinhang horrified, Nan Zhou continued to lower his head to build Xiao Ming's home, and said slowly:
"…But if the game is a reality that the character Xiao Ming is experiencing simultaneously, then the game should not be designed that way."
"Xiao Ming's father should still be at home, we should have an intersection with Xiao Ming's father, an NPC, our mission should be to find out the fact that he murdered, and then try to escape, and he will chase us behind with a handsaw. ... not Like now, throw us into an empty house, some inexplicable ghost appears, let's find a door we don't know where."
"From the beginning, all of us have been playing Xiao Ming, living, washing, entertaining, doing homework, and doing activities in this home according to Xiao Ming's habit."
"Since that time, I can't figure it out. There is only one Xiaoming. Why should we gather eight people to participate in this dungeon?"
"Now I know probably why: the number doesn't matter. Because we can all be Xiao Ming."
"This copy is the world in Xiao Ming's brain."
Inspired by the cooperation of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, Li Yinhang finally opened his mind.
If they were in Xiao Ming's mind now, then the day when her sister was dismembered was just a normal day for Xiao Ming who had just woken up from her sleep.
From his point of view, he didn't notice anything.
So when he woke up from a happy sweet sleep, he didn't smell the smell of blood, and he didn't hear the sound of dismemberment.
And as players, they didn't hear anything.
When he woke up at 8 o'clock on July 3 and started a new day, the ground had been cleaned, the blood was flushed into the sewer, and the smell of fresh air system and detergent completely covered up the bloody smell.
Maybe he could only smell a trace of meat in the air.
In reality, the father may still be at home, changing into a new dress, looking a little haggard, as if he had not slept all night.
Xiao Ming started his ordinary daily life in ignorance.
And the players on the first day also began to search in such a false peace.
At noon, Xiao Ming probably had a dream.
Although Xiao Ming himself has no idea what happened last night, his consciousness has received enough signals.
So he dreamed of the screeching noise of a hand saw.
... So Yu Tuisi also dreamed.
This dream may have made Xiao Ming feel a little bad, so that when he was taking a shower at night, when he thought of a certain episode of a horror movie on the computer, he was very afraid that a pair of women's bare feet would appear behind him.
And Shen Jie saw the pale feet.
Before going to bed, Xiao Ming, who had not seen his sister for a day, would ask his father.
"Where did my sister go?"
Or "Dad, where's my sister?"
Any father with a trace of conscience may find it difficult to maintain his normal spirit after breaking up his daughter with his own hands.
Will he say, my sister went out to play, or will he say, my sister went to see my mother
In short, that would not be a pleasant answer.
Because after a night, the world where Jiang Fang and the others were in a strange twist.
If this is Xiao Ming's heart, he should be nervous.
He noticed something strange, maybe his sister's things disappeared overnight, maybe he also saw a few bloody hairs like them.
Even, he dreamed of the smell of meat when he was taking a nap.
Xiao Ming's atrium shrank violently, protesting strongly, the normal part shrinks and shrinks, and the deformed part enlarges.
… This is their third day, the clock is going crazy, the crazy is getting stronger, and the whole house is twisted into a kiln.
Before, Xiao Ming was just lonely, he complained alone, why they didn't play with me.
The only thing that can illuminate his sensitive heart is the one that belongs to him among the thousands of lights.
Now the light is slowly going out.
The key words for passing the level have been placed in the name of the copy from the very beginning.
The task they want to complete is "Xiao Ming's daily life".
It is his ordinary daily life, and it is also a daily life in which he gradually struggles and deforms in pain, anxiety, and fear.
"So..." Nan Zhou came to a conclusion again, "We are in Xiao Ming's world."
A world that evolved from the heart of a child who suffered an accidental murder.
A world falling layer by layer into darkness.
There are ghosts that children are afraid of, nightmares, and unknown secrets.
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There is no single door from which to escape.
So they have been unable to find the door.
After experiencing a moment of joy in discovering the truth, Li Yinhang suddenly became depressed again.
Even after discovering the truth about the world they are in, they still can't find the door.
Her discovery did have some value, but it had nothing to do with the main story, so the reward sound didn't even sound.
For example, what she found was an opportunity to find the keyhole.
But without the key, it is still useless.
Jiang Fang praised her: "You have done a good job."
Li Yinhang: "..."
Thank you for your encouragement, even though I immediately went in the wrong direction when I got the clue.
Jiang Fang turned and asked Nan Zhou, "What do you think?"
Nan Zhou didn't speak, just pursed his thin lips and frowned slightly.
After a while, he said, "Today is our third day here. If you can go out before 24 o'clock today, will you be rewarded with a lot of points?"
Jiang Fang's eyebrows moved slightly: "Did you think of it?"
"It's not difficult."
Li Yinhang: "..." She felt that her IQ was being rubbed by two bosses in turn, one was symbolic gentle, the other was simply rude.
Nan Zhou turned to Li Yinhang and confirmed, "...the points will be a little more, right?"
Seeing the hope of getting out of this ghost place, Li Yinhang blushed with excitement: "Yes, yes, yes."
So, Nan Zhou swallowed what he wanted to say.
He reached out and picked up Xiao Ming's summer math homework, opened the cover,
What caught his eye was a big clock that Xiao Ming had drawn on the title page of his workbook.
Xiao Ming wrote in his diary: "I hope the clock is turned to the end, and the math homework can be finished automatically."
Nan Zhou's fingertips ran across the cool pages.
In the depths of Xiao Ming's heart, what is he longing for
How to find a door to escape from the pain with Xiao Ming's falling hope.
Nan Zhou put his finger lightly on the hour hand of the graffiti clock.
They have already searched this house, and it is unlikely that there will be any other clues.
Looking at all their discoveries so far, only this virtual clock holds Xiao Ming's wish.
It does not belong to reality, it belongs to Xiao Ming's heart.
He turned the pointer back upside down.
And the hour hand, which had been stagnant and drawn with a pen, actually moved.
One circle, another circle.
Simple operation of loop back and forth.
As Nan Zhou said, it is really not difficult, very simple.
Xiao Ming wants to go back to the past.
Back to the day when there was no tragedy, back to when my father and sister were still there.
Nan Zhou's fingertips moved faster and faster, but his eyes were fixed on the three little human figures standing in front of the small house holding hands.
The reversed time, with the rapid flow of his fingertips, took them out of the cage of the heart.
If time could be reversed, what would people wish for
Go back and see what your parents and loved ones looked like when they were young and healthy
Buy a lottery ticket and fulfill your wish to get rich
Say sorry to the person you hurt when you were young and ignorant
Nan Zhou did not know.
He doesn't have anything in particular he wants to do.
If there must be...
A pleasant system music sounded at the right time, interrupting Nan Zhou's reverie.
After the music, everyone heard the same thing:
【Ding Ding Ding Dong—】
[Congratulations to the "Cube Ark" team for completing the copy "Xiao Ming's Daily Life"! 】
[Congratulations to the "Lifang Ark" members Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang, and Li Yinhang for finding the "Escape Door" and earning 2,000 points each! 】
[Congratulations to Nan Zhou, a member of the "Cube Ark", for discovering the A-level prop "Countercurrent Clock"! 】
[Congratulations to the "Li Fangzhou" team, the "Shunfeng" team, and the "Nanshan" team for completing the basic tasks, and getting the reward "Xiao Ming's daily routine completed", each with 500 points! 】
[Congratulations to the three teams, who found the exit four days in advance within the seven-day game period, and each won 800 points! 】
[The exploration degree of the current mission main line is 987. If the completion degree is 95 or more, you can judge the perfect S grade! 】
[DiDi-S-level reward is 1000 points each and any random item, the item will be sent to each player's backpack within three days~]
[Players please leave the dungeon within three minutes—]
Nan Zhou immediately eliminated all unnecessary thoughts, and carried the summer homework with the clock into his arms so fast that Li Yinhang didn't have time to blink.
When the three pushed the door out, Shen Jie, who was just about to take a shower, was standing in the center of the living room.
Shen Jie's hands trembled slightly, and she asked the three of them in ecstasy: "What's going on?!"
Nan Zhou let Li Yinhang explain to them briefly, while he looked around.
The walls are still twisted.
It's just that where there should be a door in the entrance, there is a door drawn crookedly with a child's crayon.
... Xiao Ming's heart, after all, has become like this.
Nan Zhou originally thought that if he didn't have time to reward points, he wanted to stay with Xiao Ming for the next four days.
But in this way, the heart that has been hurt will not be healed easily.
Li Yinhang reluctantly described their reasoning process based on his own ability.
Shen Jie didn't understand at all.
She didn't care about the little jealousy and envy of the "Cube Ark" in her heart, and instructed the fitness coach to hurry up and carry the skinny monkey over.
It's good to go out, she can't care so much.
Chen Sufeng pushed Yu Tuisi, who had just taken sleeping pills, out of the master bedroom.
The latter held his head, drowsy.
Shen Jie asked Li Yinhang, "Where are you going after you go out?"
Li Yinhang: "We come from Rust."
Shen Jie kindly invited: "Come to 'Zhijin', we came from 'Zhijin'."
"Paper Gold City" is also a transmission point for the game "Universal Gravity".
Different from the post-modern cities where the rust is highly mature, the "paper gold city" is resplendent and splendid.
Chen Sufeng was studying the weird door.
Jiang Fang watched the structure of the gate from a distance.
Nan Zhou entered Xiao Ming's room to see if there were any hidden props.
In the last three minutes, Shen Jie and Li Yinhang decided where to go after leaving.
Yu Tuisi in the hall looked at the few people who were hurriedly discussing where to go, and the fitness coach who was walking towards Shen Jie from the sofa with the skinny monkey on his back.
He narrowed his eyes that were blurred by the effect of the medicine: "... Why is there one more person?"
It's too late.
Jiang Fang suddenly looked back.
A monster who didn't know when appeared behind the fitness trainer.
It was a naked male zombie with scum dripping from its chin!
It pulled its half-rotten vocal cords, roared sharply, and grabbed towards the back of the fitness coach's arm, which was densely covered with broken tendons and muscles.
Who would have thought that Xiao Ming's terrifying imagination would be refreshed just before they left? !
Li Yinhang's mind was completely blank for a moment.
A long list of messages flashed before her eyes quickly.
The American zombie movie "Loss", the plot is about 2 hours long. When everyone thought that the zombies were completely eliminated, there was still one lurking in the protagonist's home.
… still a fucking open ending.
The living room is so cramped that everyone has nowhere to hide.
Chen Sufeng reacted the fastest, grabbed the armrest of Yu Tuisi's wheelchair, and walked through the drawn door out of thin air.
Before the fitness trainer could even look back, Shen Jie grabbed her arm and yelled, "Run!!"
The fitness coach had 100% trust in Shen Jie, he didn't dare to turn his head, he ran very fast, and jumped out the door in a few steps.
Li Yinhang had already planned to run, but when it was her fate, when the fitness coach ran wild with the skinny monkey on his back, because the former was holding the latter's knee, Li Yinhang was hit hard and staggered two steps. When repeatedly screaming "don't fall" and "don't fall", he still couldn't resist gravity and fell to the ground.
Jiang Fang couldn't run away because of his height.
So he didn't plan to run at all.
He moved his wrists, his thumbs pressed against the middle knuckles of both hands with a slight bone crack.
Seeing that the fitness coach was lost, the zombies were furious, let go of their hands and feet, tilted their heads, and rushed towards Jiang Fang!
Li Yinhang was about to scream when he suddenly saw a figure walking quickly and came directly to the side of the zombie.
... She even forgot that there was a Nanzhou in the room.
In the next instant, Nan Zhou's left hand supported the bottom of the corpse's chin.
His right hand was placed on the upper right side of the corpse's head.
Li Yinhang hadn't yet remembered why this action was so familiar, when he saw him swerving to both sides like a double jerk.
click —
After a crisp bone sound, the zombie's neck was directly disconnected from the connection between the cervical vertebrae and the head, and turned back one hundred and eighty degrees.
Zombie: "… "
He probably didn't understand why he was facing the door just now, but now he was facing the toilet.
Li Yinhang: "..." He didn't scream, his throat was stuck.
The zombies naturally did not die, and they spun around in silence, as if trying to understand the south, east, north and west.
Nan Zhou looked at his hands covered with unknown mucus, quickly pulled a scarf from the hanger, and wiped his hands a few times.
While wiping his hands, he raised his head and said to Jiang Fang, "Don't be afraid next time, remember to run, you can't beat it, I'll do it."
Jiang Fang put his hands in his pockets, completely covering up his attacking stance, and said with a smile, "Yes, Teacher Nan."
After a brief cleaning, Nan Zhou walked to Li Yinhang's side: "Come on."
Double frightened, Li Yinhang stared at the still spinning zombies, his legs were weak.
Seeing that she didn't move, Nan Zhou simply grabbed her clothes by the back of her neck and lifted her halfway from the ground like a chicken.
"Let's go." Nan Zhou said concisely, "I want to wash my hands." :,